Pillow speaker



Oct. 17, 1933. L. ARNSON ,93 ,3

PILLOW SPEAKER Filed March 19. 1932 Ludwig AYnSQn INVENTOR BY MAM g 44 ATTORNEY.

tures.

' sterilized.

Patented Oct. 17,1933

UNITED STATES,

PILLOW SPEAKER Ludwig Arnson, New York, N. Y. Application March 19, 1992. Serial no. 599,905

3 Claims.

Pillows embodying receiving units have been- 10 devised, but in all known constructions the hard receiving instrument is attached to the wall of the pillow directly under and in contact with the patients head and car. In other instances the earphones are actually built into the pillow struc- The result has been, therefore, a pillow which is extremely uncomfortable for the patient as well as unsanitary since an instrument arranged inside a pillow does not lend itself well to being removed while the pillow is being With the foregoing in mind it is the purpose of the present invention to overcome any difliculties heretofore experienced and to provide an inflated pillow, which accommodates a receiving unit in a pocket arranged on its underside and away from the head and whichis further provided with an opening projecting through the center of the pillow and in communication with the receiving unit at one end and with the region under the ear of the patient at the other end, so that none of the comforts aiforded by a pillow will be sacrificed for the sake of accommodating a receiver and being able to receive radioprograms.

I accomplish this purpose by means of the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described in the specification set forth in the appended claims, and illustratively exemplifled in the accompanying drawing, in which, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a pillow having the receiving unit in place; Figure 2 is a substantially transverse sectional view of the pillow taken on lines 2-2 of Figure 1; and Figure 3 is an elevational view of a portion of the underside of the pillow showing the pocket construction and receiving unit enclosed therein.

Referring to the drawing,the pillow comprises a casing made up of an upper wall 10 and a lower wall 11, both of which are a rubberized materialwhich allows the pillow to be inflated and thoroughly sterilized after use. The sheets or walls,

10 and 11 are secured together about their marginal portions in any convenient manner and at;

one corner a valve 12 is incorporated to enable the pillow to be inflated. Communication through the pillow is established by punching or otherwise making an opening inthe two walls 10 and 11 preferably at the mldportions thereof. An eyelet 13 is then inserted in the opening and the flanges clamped together over the edges .60 of. the upper and lower walls to form an airtight joint at this point, as illustratively exemplifled in Figure 2. A pocket is built into theunderside 11 of the pillow by stitching a piece of material 14 marginally thereof with the exception of one side, to the outer surface of the under wall 11 at a point directly over the eyelet 13. A closure for the pocket is provided by stitching, another piece 15 to the under wall 11 beyond the piece 14, which is provided with one section of a separable fastener 16, the otherv section being carried by the cover 15, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. The pocket accommodates an earpiece 1'7 of any well known type from which a flexible cord 18 leads out of the pocket the free end of the .15 cord being provided with a plug 19 adapted to be inserted into the phone jack of any radio receiving set. In use, the receiver 17 is inserted in the pocket of the pillow, which has already been inflated, so as to bring the opening in the instrument di- 1 rectly in line with the opening through the pillow formed by the eyelet. 13. The cord 18 emerges "beneath the patients head. In the arrangement of the pillow, according to the present invention, .90 it will be particularly noted that the'pocket side is intended to be the underside and that the soft unobstructed upper face with simply the depressed center portion to accommodate the eyelet 13 will support the head inthe most comfortable and natural position afforded by the usual type of I pillow.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is;

1. A pillow of the character described compris- ,1 ing a casing having an unobstructed opening from one side to the other, I a rigid binding for the opening, a depression on each side adjacent the opening, a pocket formed by one depression to re-- movably receive a receiver'larger than the open- 5 mg and a closure for the pocket. 1

2. A pillow of the character described comprising a casing having an unobstructed opening from one side to the other, a depression on each side adjacent the opening, a pocket formed by 410 one depression to receive a receiver larger than the opening and a closure for the pocket comprising a ,flap permanently attached on three sides and a second flap permanently attached on three sides and having its free side overlapping the free side of the first mentioned flap and means for detachably connecting the overlying free sides.

3. A pillow of the character described, comprising acasfing made of superimposed layers of fiexible'materiai impervious to air attached 130-- gether at their margins, a valve carried by the 1 

